# WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship

The WWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Semi Completo de WWA in Spanish) is a singles professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling based promotion World Wrestling Association (WWA) since 1989. In the 1990s, the title was taken to Japan when reigning champion Gran Hamada returned to his home country. In Japan, the title became one of 8 championships that made up the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) J-Crown Championship. When the J-Crown was broken up into individual titles the WWA World Light Heavyweight Championship returned to Mexico. The official definition of the Light Heavyweight weight class in Mexico is between 92 kg (203 lb) and 97 kg (214 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.
As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.
In 2005 Filoso, a wrestler from Pro Wrestling ZERO1, was billed as the WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Champion, using the same title belt that had been used as part of the J-Crown and it had not been returned to the WWA. Even though Filoso never actually won the belt, he did defend the title, losing it in his first defense. The title is used by Zero1 but only shares the name of the World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship, not its lineage.

## Title history
### Official WWA championship

Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| N/A | Unknown information |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| 1 | Rey Misterio Sr. | March 11, 1989 | Live event | Tijuana | 1 | 344 | Defeated Fishman to become first Champion | |
| 2 | Fishman | February 18, 1990 | Live event | Tijuana | 1 | 113 | | |
| 3 | Villano IV | June 11, 1990 | Live event | Tijuana | 1 | 1,285 | | |
| 4 | Gran Hamada | December 17, 1993 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 960 | | |
| 5 | El Samurai | August 3, 1996 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 1 | | |
| 6 | The Great Sasuke § | August 4, 1996 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 99 | Became one of eight championships comprising New Japan Pro-Wrestling's J-Crown Championship | |
| 7 | Último Dragón § | November 11, 1996 | Live event | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 54 | | |
| 8 | Jushin Thunder Liger § | January 4, 1997 | Wrestling World 1997 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 183 | | |
| 9 | El Samurai § | July 6, 1997 | Live event | Sapporo, Japan | 2 | 35 | | |
| 10 | Shinjiro Otani § | August 10, 1997 | Live event | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 87 | | |
| — | Vacated | November 5, 1997 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated after the J-Crown championship is divided back into the original championships. | |
| 11 | Halloween | September 16, 1999 | Live event | Tijuana | 1 | 197 | Defeated Super Parka in tournament finals for vacated title. | |
| 12 | Super Parka | March 31, 2000 | Live event | Tijuana | 1 | 760 | | |
| 13 | Super Kendo | April 30, 2002 | Live event | Tijuana | 1 | 35 | | |
| 14 | Super Parka | June 2, 2002 | Live event | Ensenada, Baja California | 2 | | | |
| 15 | Super Kendo | June 2004 | Live event | California | 2 | | | |
| 16 | Inferno | July 23, 2004 | Live event | Tijuana | 1 | 1,250 | | |
| 17 | Nicho El Millonario | December 25, 2007 | Live event | Rosarito, Baja California | 1 | 60 | | |
| 18 | Dr. Wagner Jr. | February 23, 2008 | Live event | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 6,071+ | Dr. Wagner wins match where his UWA World Heavyweight Championship is also at stake. | |

### Pro Wrestling ZERO1 version (disputed branch)

Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| 1 | Filoso | July 2005 | Live event | N/A | 1 | | Filoso never defeated anyone to win the title but it was promoted as if he did, this was a Phantom title change | |
| 2 | Osamu Namiguchi | August 24, 2005 | Live event | Nagano, Japan | 1 | 7 | | |
| 3 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | August 31, 2005 | Live event | Hiroshima, Japan | 1 | 297 | | |
| 4 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | June 24, 2006 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 8 | | |
| — | Vacated | July 2, 2006 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated and later abandoned | |
| 5 | The★ZEST | July 22, 2007 | Live event | Yamagata, Japan | 1 | 261 | Defeated Osamu Namiguchi in decision match to revive the Title | |
| 6 | NOIZ | April 6, 2008 | Miracle Rocket ~2nd Impact~ | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 77 | Defeated an unknown person wrestling as "The★ZEST" as Takuya Sugi portrayed both masked wrestlers. | |
| — | Vacated | June 22, 2008 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated when Sugi leaves the promotion; abandoned | |

## Footnotes

* ↑ Note>The most recent case of this is Mephisto's holding the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a belt with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).
* ↑ Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"
* ↑ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"
* ↑ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"
* ↑ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Duncan & Will (2000) p. 400, Chapter: "Mexico: World Wrestling Association (Benjamin Mora) WWA Junior Light Heavyweight Title"